Why the world's youth are becoming an easy target

Hasan SuroorTIMESOFINDIA.COM
Jun 8, 2026 | 15:30 IST
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The clash between India’s "uncles" and its youth is hardly unique. Across democracies, a widening generational gap is leaving younger citizens feeling unheard and underrepresented


Perhaps not since Gregor Samsa, Franz Kafka's anti-hero in ‘Metamorphosis’, who woke up one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a giant cockroach has this “monstrous vermin”, as he put it, captured public imagination quite the same way as Chief Justice of India Surya Kant's famous put-down of the country's unemployed and unemployable youth has.
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